Natalia Negru | |
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 Negru with her daughter Corina before c.1916 | |
| Born | December 5, 1882 Buciumeni, Tecuci County, Kingdom of Romania |
| Died | September 2, 1962 (aged 79) Tecuci, Romanian People's Republic |
| Pen name | Natalia Iosif |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest (1907) |
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| Children | Corina Octavian Iosif (died 1916) |
Natalia Negru (December 5, 1882 – September 2, 1962) was a Romanian poet and prose writer. Although her literary contributions were relatively minor, she is noted for being at the center of a love triangle involving her first husband, Ștefan Octavian Iosif, and her second, Dimitrie Anghel. The men were close friends, but Anghel seduced her, she divorced Iosif, who died of his grief, and then Anghel shot himself during a quarrel with her, dying of the wound two weeks later. Two years after Anghel's death, her daughter with Iosif was killed by a German bomb during World War I. She lived for four and a half decades after these turbulent events, in relatively uneventful fashion.